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Dream Jobs of 2004
prostoalex writes "We've read about the worst jobs out there, the most overpaid ones, the worst job postings and the outsourcing tendencies. Can an article on employment in scientific and engineering fields can have a positive outlook? February issue of IEEE Spectrum talks about the dream ('coolest, baddest, hippest, grooviest') jobs, where people have fun and enjoy what they're doing. IEEE publication covered the dream jobs for Electrical Engineering majors only. The linked article is actually a story about 9 different people with 9 different jobs, each leading to a separate article."
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If I wanted a list of what's hip & cool, I wouldn't look in IEEE magazine to find it.
Let me tell you something: if you think you have the worst job, there's always a more dire one.
I had a job where I was supposed to engineer "smart" plumbing fixtures - keeping water temperature right, measuring turd/bowl ratio, etc. It paid the bills, but it was boring as hell - and always got blank looks at the local SCA meets.
When the tech boom subsided, I lost the job. I wasn't too worked up about it. I found another job quickly, but little did I know it would turn out to be even worse. It was similar to the above position (experience always helps when applying), but, as I found out upon showing up on day one, I was to be engineering urinals. I fear parties, for people inevitably ask me what I do. Ten years of higher education for this, and people piss on my designs!
So, don't complain about your job. At least your products aren't full of piss.
period.
I also reply below your current threshold.
i get no training and no chance for advancement, monitarily or otherwise. no raise in the 5 years i have been there...
so my dream job is any job where i get training once in a while on things i am expected to support, and where i might get a raise if i do a solid job. its not just me, nobody else at the company gets raises either. still looking for another job, but the market isnt so good, at least in my area.
on the other hand, i know people (at other places) that are far more qualified than I am, and they have been looking for a job for quite some time more... so i cant complain too much, i guess.
to summarize, my dream job would be one where i could potentially advance for doing good work. oh, that and i want to be surrounded by hot chicks.
No, I'm not bitter...
Sure, astronaut, deep sea submersibles, yeah, yeah. But they left out bikini team oiler.
Oh, they are talking about dream jobs for Electrical Engineers only?
In that case: A great dream job would be a trophy husband to a beautiful, weathly, fun-loving supermodel.
What? You think having EE degrees means they would rather stare at oscilliscopes all day!?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I don't know, I would guess CowboyNeal has pretty close to the ubergeek paradise job. I mean, come on, he's got unlimited mod points for God's sake!
I have discovered a truly marvelous
Stress tester for Playboy website development team. 'nuff said
Free XBox, PS2
I work for IBM. A nice person from that company trained me how to do the job. He was nice but he seemed very sad. Anyway ,I now have a job and I can feed my family.
Yea, and I want to get cancer just for the remission. Good thinking.
"First, I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds, and give the other half to my friend Asadulah who works in securities..."
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
$345 a week and all I have to do is send out three resumes during that week.
That Master's degree sure is serving me well now!
Unfortunately, that job is not without its risks, and the mortality rate of that job is much higher than the norm.
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
A: Because it feels so good when I stop!
A minor detail like "mortality rate" wouldn't put me off THAT job!
Rich, loving, sexy wife: Honey, I'm home. I made another million dollars today. And I stopped at Fredrick's Of Hollywood today, but that's a suprise.
Lucky husband: Great. Oh, the 25" mirror for my new telescope arrived today along with the racks of G5 XServes. I'll mount the mirror out in the Large Array tomorrow morning.
--- Ban humanity.
Smithers: Uh, hello. You got a Help Wanted sign in the window?
Moe: Yeah, I need someone to help me with the midnight beer delivery. Your job is to distract Barney until it's safely off the truck.
Smithers: I'll just wait out back until then.
Barney: I look forward to working with you!
Ah, but you'd lose your revolutionary status. You'd still be a geek, yes, but you'd be a bourgeois geek: one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Until the benefits ran out
Hehe, you got layed off from being unemployed.
Another benefit is that more than 1 in 10 Germans gets 365 days off from work every year. What a country!
If it ain't broke, you need more software.
I once had a boss that insisted that I send him a status report each morning. I don't mind paperwork, so I did what I often do in situations like that ... I buried him in what some people call "malicious compliance."
I can write fast and wordy. So every morning, right after my to-do list, I'd write two pages, minimum, listing every single little thing I did the day before. We're talking excruciating detail.
It took less than a month for the guy to tell me that he didn't need daily reports anymore. He wanted a single monthly report, no more than one page, double-spaced.
Sweeeet. :-)
What does Norm do for a living?
You know what?
Or, at least, you could if you had the time off to do so!
nuke the moon